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Quoting Costin Manolache <cmanolache@yahoo.com>:
> Bojan Smojver wrote:
>
> > Quoting costinm@covalent.net:
> >
> >> In order to change the uid from root to a regular user, you will add
> >> user.name=...
> >> user.group=...
> >> in jk2.properties.
> >
> > I'm not too familiar with this - which part here is running as root?
>
> If you want to start tomcat on port 80, you need to start it as root
> so it can open the socket - but need to drop the priviledges for
> security.
OK, thanks. It obviously doesn't affect me as I never run Tomcat as the web
server on port 80.
Bojan
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